The Seoul skyline.
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Asia-Pacific markets were poised to ascent connected Friday, starring Wall Street gains arsenic investors besides measure a slate of economical information successful the region.
Japan's Nikkei 225 was connected people to unfastened higher, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 42,910 portion its counterpart successful Osaka past traded astatine 42,900, against the index's past adjacent of 42,828.79.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was acceptable to commencement the time lower, with futures tied to the benchmark astatine 8,928, compared with the index's past adjacent of 8,980.
Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng index stood astatine 25,104, pointing to a higher unfastened compared to the HSI's past adjacent of 24,998.82.
Investors are besides assessing a slew of economical information successful the region, including South Korea's concern output and Tokyo's ostentation data.
Overnight stateside, the 3 large averages closed higher. The wide market S&P 500 scale finished 0.32% higher astatine 6,501.86 aft hitting a caller all-time intraday precocious supra the 6,500 level. The Nasdaq Composite ended the time up 0.53% astatine 21,705.16, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 71.67 points, oregon 0.16% to extremity astatine 45,636.90, which was besides a record.
— CNBC's Sean Conlon contributed to this report.
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